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Darwin Correspondence Project

William Howard Russell

1820–1907

War correspondent who worked primarily for The Times. Covered the Crimean War, the Mutiny in India, the American Civil War (from March 1861 to April 1862), the Prussian–Austrian War, the Franco–Prussian War, and the Zulu War in South Africa.

Source

DNB.

Bibliography

DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.

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